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Audience:

General public

Keywords:

belt, pulley

Description:

This model contains two parallel pulley wheels with a connecting belt. The diameters of the two pulley cylinders appear to be equal. However, rotation of one crank turns the both wheels but rotation of the other crank appears to result in slipping. The title uses the German term “Gummiriemen” or rubber belt. The existing belt on this 1882 model appears to be leather. It is not clear as to what phenomena in belt drives this model was designed to show.

Descr Author:

Francis Moon

Descr Date:

2004-07-00

Image Metadata

Title:

V09. Belt Drive to Demonstrate Loss of Slipping in a Pair of Pulleys and a Rubber Belt

Rights:

Jon Reis/www.jonreis.com. Jon Reis Photography grants Cornell University Libraries, and the Cornell College of Engineering the rights to display copyrighted images of the Reuleaux Collection of Kinematic Mechanisms on the Cornell University and National Science Digital Library web sites and for unlimited use in Cornell University Library publications for education purposes only. Rights for all other uses such as editorial, advertising, web use and display by third parties not affiliated with Cornell University are reserved by the photographer.